Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has constituted a high-level Working Group comprising senior officials and the representatives of global technology companies to finalise the curriculum, infrastructure, resource deployment, learning content and lab requirements of government schools.
The working group has been instructed to submit a report to the government by July 15. The move is aimed at transforming government school students into world-class human resources equipped with modern technology.
The working group headed by the Principal Secretary (School Education) will have IT Secretary, School Education Commissioner, Samagra Shiksha Project Director, SCERT Director, Ashutosh Chadha of Microsoft India, Shalini Kapoor of Amazon Web Services India, Shweta Khurana of Intel Asia Pacific, Jaijit Bhattacharya, president of Centre for Digital Economy Policy Research, Archana G. Gulati, former advisor Digital Communications, NITI Aayog and the representatives of Google and NASSCOM as its members. School Infrastructure Commissioner will be the convener.
